@eryanyu: "hello all, i am a rails developer. i ran into this problem when i m
using permalink_fu to generating permalink field.
it runs perfectly when the field is purely english characters, but
when it tries to convert a field with chinese characters, it hangs.
i trace it down until i got to the line with Iconv in the console,
everytime i execute the following, it hangs:
Code :
    Iconv.iconv('ascii//ignore//translit','utf-8','some chinese
characters here =E4=BD=A0=E5=A5=BD=E5=98=9B' )
does anyone else run into this problem?thank you
if it helps to list what machine i m on:
Windows XP
ruby 1.8.6
AMD64 3000+"
    @nobu: "Hi,
At Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:55:03 +0900,
Mister Yu wrote in [ruby-talk:271650]:
<quote>
How and from where did you install ruby and libiconv?
Nobu Nakada"
    @eryanyu: "Hi,
It's the Windows One-Click Installer from Ruby's homepage.
I tried to install it to my Windows Vista partition and i got the same
result.
As long as there is chinese characters in the string, it hangs there,
until i press ctrl-c and return, it goes back to the prompt.
<quote>"
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